Drupal.org marketplace upgrade. The place to promote your drupal services

The Marketplace section on Drupal.org has been revamped through major changes. Most of it happened a couple of weeks ago, but some are as recent as this week.

the Marketplace now has 3 sections:

• Drupal Services http://drupal.org/drupal-services
• Hosting http://drupal.org/hosting
• Training http://drupal.org/training

Hosting section stayed completely the same. As for the other two - there are some updates.

Drupal Services now has 2 listings: Featured providers and All providers, with Featured section being the landing page of the Marketplace.

Training section is also now a view of organization nodes similar to the Services section. The fields shown in this view are Title, Training url and Training description, so make sure to fill those if you want to be listed.

The Hosting, Training and Marketplace displays all pull from the same fundamental organization node type.

The rules

After much discussion and weighing of different perspectives and goals they now have new Marketplace guidelines in place, which describe what each section means, what you need to do to get listed, what is the process.

Items to note:

• Contributions back to the community is the first and main requirement to be listed in the Marketplace.
• Organization pages need to be updated at least once per year. If you haven't updated yours for more then 12 month, they will remind you via your company's issue and wait 2 weeks for you to update the node. If 2 weeks passed and node is still not updated, they will remove it from the listing.

Drupal marketplace is an excellent way to promote your drupal services.

full article at: http://drupal.org/node/1795858